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New Statutory body as an alternative to the NHS for mental health and hidden disability

IrishInManchesterUK

Now that advances in medical science has uncovered more people in modern times, children, adolescents and adults alike, including in the post-Covid era, with mental health and hidden disabilities including autism, is it not now time to set up a separate statutory body, properly funded and properly managed, entirely seperate from the NHS, dealing exclusively with all mental health and hidden disability issues? We all know the problems of the NHS that have been going on for decades and are well-documented, of mismanagement and wastage, so is it not time for a fresh start with a new body, alongside implementing reforms within the NHS?

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  • Any massive change is going to be difficult simply because of lack of money. Certainly if experts-by-experience were tapped into, and given some kind of certification, that would reduce local bills. Andy Burnham seems keen on having the budget spread more evenly through the country. I do think more localising of services would be a good idea, but some things need to be centralised, for example research centres and specialist services like operating theatres or cancer centres or where experts need to be close together to share research and experience. 

  • in reply to Marianne72
    Marianne72 said:
    experts need to be close together to share research and experience. 

    This to me is why "ground-up" expertise for autistic people such as ourselves is vital in the construction of any service.  And this sort of forum is the training and proving ground for it.  Unfortunately "experts and certification" for those people working in the field seems to me to be always looking at last years knowledge.

    This forum I think is a community mental health resource.  

    And if i'm completely realistic, despite all my ranting and raving, I expect by the way things are going it will be a cold day in a hot place for the government to actually do the right thing by us.

    Meanwhile this sort of peer-led network can crowd source real-time, adaptive strategies that actually work for people today—bypassing the institutional lag entirely and developing the power inside the community until wider society catches up or until we've found the right leverage to get things changed.

    Best Wishes

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  • in reply to Marianne72
    Marianne72 said:
    experts need to be close together to share research and experience. 

    This to me is why "ground-up" expertise for autistic people such as ourselves is vital in the construction of any service.  And this sort of forum is the training and proving ground for it.  Unfortunately "experts and certification" for those people working in the field seems to me to be always looking at last years knowledge.

    This forum I think is a community mental health resource.  

    And if i'm completely realistic, despite all my ranting and raving, I expect by the way things are going it will be a cold day in a hot place for the government to actually do the right thing by us.

    Meanwhile this sort of peer-led network can crowd source real-time, adaptive strategies that actually work for people today—bypassing the institutional lag entirely and developing the power inside the community until wider society catches up or until we've found the right leverage to get things changed.

    Best Wishes

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